Introduction

 

Thank you for choosing to be a part of our community. At BETAH Associates, Inc. (BETAH), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

 

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website (www.betah.com) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it.

 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website or communicating with BETAH via the Contact Us page or other means via this Website, you agree to the procedures and practices described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

 

 

Information We Collect About You 

 

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

 

• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes passwords, password hints, and other information that will be used for account authentication and access. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website;
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as information about a business you might own or operate; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

 

We collect this information:

 

• Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when you register for an account with Us;
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies; and

 

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

 

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

 

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

 

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests;
• Speed up your searches; and
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

 

• Cookies (or browser cookies)
  A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

 

• Flash CookiesCertain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.

 

• Web Beacons
  Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

 

• Google Analytics
  We use Google Analytics to analyze how you use our Website. The service generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies stored on your computer. The information generated is used to create reports about the use of our Website. If you do not want your Website visit data reported by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. For more details on installing and un-installing the add-on, visit the Google opt-out page at Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on Download Page

 

 

How We Use Your Information

 

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

 

• To present our Website and its contents to you;
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
• To send you marketing and promotional communications if a request to get in touch is submitted;
• To fulfill our administrative duties, such as to send you information about our terms, conditions and policies;
• To request feedback from you about our Website and our services;
• To manage user accounts;
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it;
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website;
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; and
• For any other purpose with your consent.

 

We may also use your information to contact you about our own services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the order form).

 

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, such as tax, account or other legal requirement.

 

 

Disclosure of Your Information

 

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

 

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

 

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them; and
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
• With your consent.

 

We may also disclose your personal information:

 

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of BETAH, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your personal information to third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy.

 

 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

 

You may also send us an email at contracts@betah.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

 

 

Opting Out of Email Marketing

 

You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list – however, we will still need to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account.

 

 

Data Security

 

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.

 

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone and we urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for the circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

 

 

Children Under the Age of 18

 

Our services are not intended for children. We may allow for individuals under eighteen (18) to utilize our Services with proper parental consent or other legal consent. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from someone under 18 without verification of parental or other legal consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at contracts@betah.com.

 

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

 

This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

 

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

 

 

Contact Information

 

To register a complaint or concern or to ask questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at contracts@betah.com.